Happy Birthday Judy Patsch!

Heres a Happy Birthday To You, on the CaLLiope,,..

Oh man, I missed it again. I've been so busy saving steamboats your birthday slipped up on me again. And here I had the perfect card, something about so many candles, stop, drop and roll! Only kidding. Hope you have a wonderful day!

For all the support
For all the discussions, even if sometimes we didn't agree
For all the port transportation of crew in need
For always having our backs
For all that steamboatin' passion

For all the cookies.......

Happy Birthday

Judy,

Hope your birthday is a great one, filled with lots of good steamboatin' memories and heartfelt wishes from all your steamboat friends! Your friendship and kindness all these years is a real treasure, one that is shared by the boatload of river friends you have made over the years. Posted below is a whistle salute in your honor from a boat on which you and I have shared some great river trips.

HBD Judy. The RH Shipyard is closed, today, in celebration of your special day.

Happy Birthday, my friend, I hope it's a great one. Thanks for your never ending patience and, at just the right times, pointing me toward the light.

Happy Birthday Judy

Happy Birthday Judy. Steamboats and riverfolks will always have a friend as long as you are around.

Thanks for all the steam salutes. I'm celebrating with steam in another fashion - they just finished remodeling my bathroom yesterday so I'm getting steam up in there for the first time this morning! For those of you unfamiliar with the Middle Upper Miss Museum, I've lived in this house all my life, and I figure I'll leave it either when I die or go to a nursing home. So modifications in the bathroom were needed - we had an old clawfoot tub that seemed to be getting higher and higher to negotiate, so now I've come to the 21st century and in my 7th decade with a 15 inch high tub. Sadly they had to break up the old cast iron tub to remove it - I think it would have been worth something. Even the pieces were valuable I guess, as they disappeared within a half hour of going to the alley! So now I've got a convenient modern room, an AQ instead of a DQ I guess. By the way Sam, I think the RH shipyard is closed more often than a post office, isn't it???
Speaking of remodeling, there's been a lot of that since this first pix was taken in August 1985. The NATCHEZ' stacks are now shorter, the white ring is gone from the wheel's perimeter, the Toulouse Street wharf is new, and the old Lower Bienville Wharf where I am posing is now part of the Woldenberg Riverfront Park. I kept my car parked in the shed and pulled out the lounge chair to watch the NATCHEZ land. We jokingly called it "Bienville Beach". Note the framework for the stern canopy, but no canvas. This was the first year of those canopies, and we had removed the canvas for Hurricane Danny and hadn't put it back on yet. Danny never did make it to NOLA anyway. The second pix was taken in the late 1980s in my courtyard at the Beauregard Keyes House - think I could try a different pose once in a while? My apartment is in the background under the back porch.

And another Happy Birthday from this side of the pond!!

Carmen, Franz and Enkelin Leonie

I had no idea, Judy, that today is your birthday. Gosh, if I had known, I'd have baked a cake! Happy Birthday, and may many more come your way.

Frank 🙂

Judy,
In celebration of your birthday, we are headed to Brannon Island, in the Sacramento Delta for the annual steamboat meet! At least that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
Looking forward to seeing all those steamy people and over 20 steam launches! Oh boy Oh Boy, Steam! Err, I mean, Birthdays!!!
Hope you're having a great one, and splurge and eat a cookie baked by someone else (so you don't have to work at making it!).
Steamcerely,
David & Linda D.

The Steamboatin' Times
All the river news fit to printLive aboard the virtual DELTA QUEEN
On the Upper Mississippi River

6:30 am - 8am Breakfast is served in the Orleans Room

9:00 am Shore tour

10:00am Bingo in the Texas Lounge

11:30am -1pm Lunch is served in the Orleans Room

1:30pm DELTA QUEEN Departs Rock Island with a steamy Calliope salute to the birthday of Judy Patsch...with constant playing of ""Dixie" and "Happy
Birthday"

4:00pm Cocktail Hour in the Texas Lounge with Vic Tooker and the Riverboat Ramblers

7:00pm Captains Dinner Captain Clarke C. "Doc" Hawley invites you to the Orleans Room for our Captains Dinner

After Dinner Captain Hawley has a special steam calliope concert for Judy's Birthday on the world famous DELTA QUEEN steam calliope using the "Aurora Effect", steam tinted with all the colours of the rainbow!

9:00 pm Showtime Tonight featuring "Judys Natal Day Extravaganza!" in the Orleans Room with Vic Tooker and the Riverboat Ramblers

11:00pm Dance Set with Vic Tooker and the Riverboat Ramblers (Orleans Room)

12:00 mid Moonlight snacks in the Orleans Room

How is that for a special virtual birthday!!
Wish I was there for that one!

Happy Birthday Judy!

~Travis~

HBTY! You are a great lady, so willing to share your knowledge and friendship with so many. The world needs more Judys! : )

Ed Jones

Happy Birthday Judy

Judy,
I wasn't on here yesterday, but I want to say happy belated birthday and, in the spirit, give you a steam salute, but not from the boat you might think.

Travis Vasconcelos;12863 wrote:

After Dinner Captain Hawley has a special steam calliope concert for Judy's Birthday on the world famous DELTA QUEEN steam calliope using the "Aurora Effect", steam tinted with all the colours of the rainbow!

The Aurora Effect? ooooOOOOOOO!

Happy birthday judy

Hi Judy,
Saw it was your birthday. Have a Good One. Here is a funny pic of Roddy I took in Florida.
PEACE. Danny Gray

OOPs, the pic did not upload. Sorry

In memory of roddy

Here is a photo I took of Captain Roddy at the camp in Cocodrie, Louisiana. He caught his first fish with me. Two speckled trout.
PEACE.
Danny Gray

Captain roddy and i

Here is a photo of Capatain Roddy and I in California. We had a great time.
PEACE.
Danny Gray

If you can still squat like that, go for it. It's been years since I could go down that far and not call it torture. As for the bathtub, haven't you heard about the things people are stealing because of the high price of metals these days? Or maybe someone just wanted to build a bathtub grotto. Too bad you had to break it up as those old tubs are a hot item in the restoration business. From one hot item to another, happy 60 something. (And I'm not inferring that we are old tubs.)

Drawing of captain roddy

Here is a photo of a pencil drawing I did of Roddy.
PEACE
Danny Gray

Photo of roddy and i

Here is a photo of Captain Roddy and I in Washington D.C. at The Grayln.
PEACE.
Danny Gray